Misery, Mutilation, Destruction, Terror, Starvation And Death

The Ultimate Gift Of Conscious Life Is A Sense Of The Mystery That Encompasses It.

The Life-efficiency And Adaptability Of The Computer Must Be Questioned. Its Judicious Use Depends Upon The Availability Of Its Human Employers Quite Literally To Keep Their Own Heads, Not Merely To Scrutinize The Programming But To Reserve For Themselves The Right Of Ultimate Decision. No Automatic System Can Be Intelligently Run Byautomatonsor By People Who Dare Not Assert Human Intuition, Human Autonomy, Human Purpose.

It Has Not Been For Nothing That The Word Has Remained Man's Principal Toy And Tool: Without The Meanings And Values It Sustains, All Man's Other Tools Would Be Worthless.

If There Are Favourable Habitats And Favorable Forms Of Association For Animalsand Plants, As Ecology Demonstrates, Why Not For Men? If Each Particular Natural Environment Has Has Its Own Balance; Is There Not Perhaps An Equivalent Of This In Culture?

Western Society Has Accepted As Unquestionable A Technological Imperative That Is Quite As Arbitrary As The Most Primitive Taboo: Not Merely The Duty To Foster Invention And Constantly To Create Technological Novelties, But Equally The Duty To Surrender To These Novelties Unconditionally, Just Because They Are Offered, Without Respect To Their Human Consequences.